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Corona Virus - funerals, football and the future!
Standing idly by
English - April 01, 2020 15:00 - 12 minutes - 8.95 MBPolitics News Science Social Sciences politics local global community ireland parish councillor wicklow bray Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Connection is at the heart of the human experience but it has to be real! This episode explores and illustrates the full impact this pandemic is having on all of our human connections. In the absence of the gatherings that truly define us, what is left?
You can't attend the funeral of a loved one nor the match of your local football team. Births and birthdays are off the radar! Going out for a few drinks is now at best drinking at home with your mates on a screen. The 'new normal' is fundamentally opposite to how we are hardwired as a species!
Knowing, recognising and accepting what is happening can serve us well as we project our imagination to the time when it is not like this! Resisting, avoiding or denying the impact of this virus is unhealthy for the human soul.